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  2. Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning
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Abstract

This essay argues that Woolf's engagement with the war's legacy prompted her to represent a new kind of mourning practice, one that spurns consolation and closure. In critiquing the consoling rhetoric of God, king, and country, Jacob's Room articulates a politics and ethics of mourning linked to Woolf's feminist aims. To the Lighthouse turns the question of consolation back upon Woolf's own medium, showing how a female painter deconstructs the notion of redemptive art and represents a perpetual mourning of loss.
Format
Article
Identifier(s)
10.1353/mfs.2004.0002
Publication Date
2004-04-01
Publication Title
Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume
50
Issue
1
First Page
197
Last Page
223
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Department of English
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Clewell, T. (2004). Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning (1–). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2004.0002
Clewell, Tammy. 2004. “Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning”. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2004.0002.
Clewell, Tammy. Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1 Apr. 2004, https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2004.0002.